Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 296-301

  Jannot, Anne Sophie ^a   Agoritsas, Thomas ^a,b   Gayet Ageron, Angèle ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Journal impact factor; Medical literature analysis and retrieval system; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Regression analysis; Systematic bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CITATION BIAS; COHORT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 84872790100     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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